Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.3719
Name
 Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lang and Stackebrandt 2009
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Garcia and Müller 2018
Members
(Cohn 1875) Jahn 1911 (Approved Lists 1980)
Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)
Thaxter 1897
Thaxter 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)
Chambers et al. 2021
Kofler 1913
Yamanaka et al. 1990
Chambers et al. 2021
(Krzemieniewska and Krzemieniewski 1926) Zahler and McCurdy 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Thaxter 1897 (Approved Lists 1980)
Chambers et al. 2021
Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lang et al. 2008
Beebe 1941 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  Waite et al. 2021
  Waite et al. 2020
  Tchan et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Waite et al. 2020
  Reichenbach 2007
  Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Garcia and Müller 2018
  Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lang and Stackebrandt 2009

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.
Citation
When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.
Taxon Abstract for the genus Myxococcus Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lang and Stackebrandt 2009. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3719.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on January 15, 2021.

References

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